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Byron, Nebraska

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Chester precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68325. The Survey maps it on the Byron quadrangle. 83 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,670 feet above sea level.

Byron within Thayer County

Population over time

2 figures

Byron grew from 83 to 83 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201083
2020830 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Byron between 2002 and 2009, burning about 30 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 April 2009Debris and open burning20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 April 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 March 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 March 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 November 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Thayer County

Storms near this place

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Byron in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 tornado, 2 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2004Tornado (F1)Byron$1,000,000A tornado traveled north from near Byron to just south of Deshler. Fortunately the tornado remained in primarily unpopulated areas.
September 2015HailByron$500,000Hail size ranged from 1 to 3 inches in diameter.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindByron$100,000Wind gusts were estimated to be near 70 MPH.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindByron$60,000Wind gusts were estimated to be near 70 MPH. A trained spotter reported an overturned pivot along Highway 8, west of Byron. Broadcast media relayed pictures of minor tree and outbuilding damage west of Byron.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindByron$50,000A cattle trailer was overturned one mile east of the Thayer-Nuckolls County line on Highway 8. Wind gusts were estimated to be near 70 MPH, with measured gust of 72 MPH occurring approximately 4 miles to the northwest of this damage report.
June 2015HailByron$25,000no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindByron-A wind gust of 71 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located five miles southeast of Ruskin.
October 2019FloodByron-Emergency management reported flooding about 2 miles south-southwest of Belvidere, with a few inches of water over one southbound lane and one northbound lane of Highway 81 near mile marker 16. Water was also reported to be over portions of Highway 53 just south of Alexandria and over rural county Road E between Road 5200 and 5300. Rainfall totals included 4.65 inches by a CoCoRaHS observer located 4 miles east of Ohiowa, 4.25 inches at the Hebron Airport and 3.81 inches by a cooperative observer in Hebron.
May 2015Heavy RainByron-A 24 hour storm total rainfall amount of 8.78 inches was reported.
May 2015Tornado (EF0)Byron-There was no damage reported with this tornado. The path was determined from video and radar information.
April 2014HailByron-This is a delayed report for quarter size hail that occurred in the community of Byron. This report was received via Facebook.
June 2012Heavy RainByron-Rain total of 3.25 inches for the past 24 hours. Report comes from the Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network. The rain began during the late afternoon on June 14th, with the last round of rain ending during the early morning hours of June 15th.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindByron-Wind gusts estimated at 60-65 MPH in the Byron and Chester areas. Damage reports included a large tree toppled in Chester that narrowly missed a home, along with a grain storage structure that suffered roof damage.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Byron-One final, brief tornado set down in south-central Nebraska east of Byron. The supercell thunderstorm then moved into Kansas.
June 2009HailByron-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindByron-no account filed
May 1996HailByron-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Thayer County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Chester8.0 miles13
Deshler9.8 miles13
Stoddard (historical)10.1 miles13
Hubbell14.4 miles11
Hebron14.8 miles13
Williams (historical)19.1 miles11
Belvidere20.4 miles12
Carleton21.0 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on ByronAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q282321The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 827830. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.